Glad I decided to drop them and go with Duck Duck Go instead six months or so ago. Heard some shitty things about the owners of Brave…
I don’t love brave… it’s kinda wierd…
If the allegations are true, Brave has found a remarkably efficient business model: block the publisher’s ads, bypass its paywall, scrape its articles, then sell the results to AI companies. All while marketing itself as the browser that protects people from shady internet practices.
Brave’s always been shady.
I don’t get why it is listed in the Arch Linux wiki.
I would guess BAT investors
Sounds about right, given that its previous business model was MITMing ads in order to extort website owners to buy its crypto.
They also own their own ad company.
The media is always lying to some extent. This is just karma
Edit: Karma for the news outlets that lie. There’s a browser that can get around all their bullshit now and it’s great
And people over in Reddit and tech-illiterate people recommend this garbage?
People in this thread are recommending brave lol
How do Brave Bypasses NYT’s paywall? In the past I’ve managed that with an extension, not anymore .
you can use archivetoday and it will archive it and load it without the paywall iirc. though I haven’t been able to do that in a while since they have the Google QR captcha now.
Sure. Let media outlets owned by the rich fight tech companies owned by other rich people. Doubt it changes anything though.
I wonder how the Washington Post feels about it?
What browser do y’all (who hopefully are more informed than me) recommend? I’ve switched from Chrome to Firefox and now to Brave…
Why the fuck would you choose Brave? What was appealing about that mess when you had Firefox which works absolutely fine to begin with? Anything built on Chromium is not in your best interest.
Go back to Firefox or any of the various derivatives.
If you must have a back up chromium browser at least choose something like Vivaldi.
Librewolf on desktop, Ironfox on mobile
Iron Fox isn’t on iOS.
Waterfox
LIbrewolf is my personal choice along with mulvad browser but I don’t use chromium browsers
So when google, meta and amazon do it it’s cool, but when a good campany does it it’s bad